Biography
Soprano Madeline Huss has been enjoying singing in the MNOpera Chorus for five seasons, and is looking forward to singing in The Elixir of Love in their 2023-2024 season. She has been seen professionally with Baltimore Musicales non-profit organization five of their recitals. She also sang in American Music Theatre Artists' three-performance production of "Bravo! Bernstein on Broadway." As a new music enthusiast, she has been a vocalist in many world premieres, including opera scenes, art songs, arias, and chamber ensembles.
In the musical theater world, Huss was seen as Meg March in Heritage Players' virtual production of Little Women. With Peabody Opera, she performed Soldier in Peabody Opera’s production of Zach Redler’s The Falling and the Rising, Adina in L’elisir d’amore, and the title role of Thomas Whitman’s Sukey in the Dark. With Little Patuxent Opera Institute, she sang the role of Miss Titmouse in Edwin Penhorwood’s Too Many Sopranos. Her performances in opera scenes include the roles of Maria in West Side Story, Ilia in Idomeneo, Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She co-wrote, directed, and performed in an opera outreach program that was designed to educate and entertain students grades K-6 in musical vocabulary and opera repertoire called “Where in the World is Opera?” Huss was the soprano soloist in Peabody’s oratorio performance of Vaughan Williams’ “Dona nobis pacem” under the direction of Edward Polochick. She was a studio artist at Little Patuxent Opera Institute in Columbia, Maryland, a vocalist for New Music on the Point in Leicester, Vermont, and a studio artist at SongFest in Los Angeles.
Huss received a graduate performance diploma and a masters degree in vocal performance and music theory pedagogy from Peabody, where she studied with Dr. Ah Young Hong. She received a Bachelor of Music from Concordia College where she studied with Dr. Anne Jennifer Nash.
